2010年12月大學(xué)英語(yǔ)六級(jí)Section C
Psychologists are finding that hope plays a surprisingly vital role in giving people a measurable advantage in realms as ___ as academic achievement, bearing up in tough jobs and coping with ___ illness. And, by contrast, the loss of hope is turning out to be a stronger sign that a person may ___ suicide than other factors long thought to be more likely risks.
‘Hope has proven a powerful predictor of ___ in every study we've done so far,’ said Doctor Charles R. Snyder, a psychologist, who has devised a ___ to assess how much hope a person has.
For example, in research with 3,920 ___ students, Dr. Snyder and his colleagues found that the level of hope among freshmen at the beginning of their first semester was a more ___ predictor of their college grades than were their S.A.T. scores or their grade point ___in high school, the two measures most commonly used to predict college performance.
‘______,’ Doctor Snyder said. ‘When you compare students of equivalent intelligence and past academic achievements, what sets them apart is hope.’
In devising a way to assess hope scientifically, Dr. Snyder ______. ‘That notion is not concrete enough, and it blurs two key components of hope,’ Doctor Snyder said, ‘______.’
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